My Heart is Inditing a Lovely Matter.

My heart is inditing a good matter. Those words kept coming to my mind as I listened and sang along with Israel Houghton’s My Tribute Medley.

How can I say thanks for the things you have done for me. Things so undeserved yet you gave to prove your love for me. And the voices of a million angels could not express my gratitude. All that I am and ever hope to be, I owe it all to thee.

Chorus: To God be the glory, to God be the glory, to God be the glory for the things He has done. He has done.

Just let me live my life. Let it be pleasing Lord to thee. Should I get any praise, let it go to Calvary.

How great is our God. How great is our God. How great is our God….

As I sang the lyrics to this beautiful song I realized how much it made me want to love God more. Can a song make you love God more? Its weird but that is what I was feeling. I was loving God ‘hard.’ My grandmother used to refer to people loving hard, as in ‘giving it all, holding nothing back.’ All I could say was “I love you so much, God.” My heart felt like it was literally throbbing for God. I know people have used the term ‘heart throb’ often, but I’m not using it as a cliché. My heart was pulsating as I worshipped God. I thought, ‘Wow, Israel is so talented. His song makes me want to love God more.’ My heart is inditing a good matter, continued coming to my mind. It was Psalm 45:1. As I continued to sing about how great God is, I read the scripture and wondered on how it applied to me. So much revelation came forth after I read a few commentaries.

This scripture was the beginning of a poem that someone was writing about the King. The writer’s heart was engaged and it was bubbling over. The writer had so much love towards the king that he couldn’t really speak to express the emotions coming from his heart. He felt that by writing what he was feeling it would give greater clarity to what he was trying to say. This is understandable for me. I am a much better writer than I am a speaker.

The psalmist was describing exactly how I felt. My heart was overflowing with love for God as I repeated, “I love you so much”, over and over again.

We can all experience what the writer was expressing. God wants our hearts, our undivided attention. He wants us to crave him and be in love with Him. David said as the deer pants after the water brooks so pants my soul after God. God is so wonderful. I know that it is His love that I was feeling because His love is ‘poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit’. Isn’t it wonderful to know that He pours His love into our hearts so we can have a glimpse of how much He loves us?

I forgot about the bad report that I had received regarding my car and the repairs that I needed. It was just me lying on my bed telling God how much I love Him.